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How to write really good Python code for Data Engineering

Writing high-performance code without creating more problems for yourself in the future. — Congratulations! 🎉 If you’re reading this, you likely want to get better at writing code for data engineering. In this guide, I will be showing you how I approach writing code as a means of problem solving. A bit about me I’m a Senior Data Engineer at Headspace and have been practicing data engineering for 5+…

Programming

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How to write code like a Senior Data Engineer
How to write code like a Senior Data Engineer
Programming

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Data Engineer Things

·Aug 29

Technical Writing Guide: Emphasizing Personal Experiences with Callouts

Draw attention to your personal experience without disrupting the flow of your narrative — Congratulations 🎉 If you’re reading this, you probably want to improve your technical writing skills. Background: I’m a Data Engineer with 6+ years experience. I’m also an editor for Data Engineering Things publication. I review a lot of technical articles and thought I’d share some techniques to improve technical writing.

Technical Writing

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Technical Writing

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Data Engineer Things

·Aug 1

Don’t Write Another Line of Code Until You See These Pydantic V2 Breakthrough Features

Data Engineers Beware: Pydantic V2’s Game-Changing Upgrades Are Here! — Introduction Pydantic is the go-to data validation python library. With about 20 million downloads per week, it is among the top 100 python libraries. Pydantic V2 was recently released (with a rust backend) — it is 5–50X faster than V1! The release also introduces many new breakthrough features, of which I…

Pydantic

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Don’t Write Another Line of Code Until You See These Pydantic V2 Breakthrough Features
Don’t Write Another Line of Code Until You See These Pydantic V2 Breakthrough Features
Pydantic

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Data Engineer Things

·Jul 3

AI without Data Quality: A Castle Built on Shadows

How and why data quality is required for successful AI development. — Motivation Lately, I’ve been frustrated seeing AI discussed in sweeping exemplary platitudes. Most of the AI technologies which are in the news today (namely LLMs) have been around for many years.¹ I am confounded by proclamatory commitments to investment in AI development and research.² These seem to miss the point —…

Software Development

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AI without Data Quality: A Castle Built on Shadows
AI without Data Quality: A Castle Built on Shadows
Software Development

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Jan 2

A Data Engineer’s Guide to Securing your Identity After a Data Breach

Secure your personal identity in 4 quick steps (~20 minutes). — TLDR: Claim your social security account Freeze your credit Place a fraud alert Opt out of pre-screened credit offers Introduction: Companies collect a ton of data on individuals. Data Brokers purchase that data (is borderline illegal), aggregate it, often with personal information, and sell it. …

Data Security

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Data Security

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Sep 30, 2022

10 Takeaways from Stack Overflow’s Conference to enhance Developer Productivity

Here are my top takeaways from attending “Flow State 2022” — Stack Overflow’s conference on developer productivity. — TLDR: Developers’ focus is valuable and is directly related to their productivity and happiness. Tech organizations should protect their Developers from disruptions. (Those that do, reap benefits.) Developers spend a ton of time each day searching for knowledge. Enabling knowledge re-use is a great way to decrease disruptions and enable developers.

Programming

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10 Takeaways from Stack Overflow’s Conference to enhance Developer Productivity
10 Takeaways from Stack Overflow’s Conference to enhance Developer Productivity
Programming

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Sep 20, 2022

Heroku has Betrayed Developers. Deploy your Python APIs with Deta Cloud Instead

The easiest way to deploy your Python API for free — using Deta Cloud (and not Heroku). — TLDR: Ditch Heroku. Deta Cloud is the easiest way to deploy python code to the cloud. Introduction: Heroku Bad! Heroku (vis-à-vis Salesforce) has betrayed developers. This goes beyond their recent announcement of eliminating their free plans (which they’ve astonishingly blamed on developers), beyond their unspoken feature freeze, and perhaps beyond the devastating security…

Programming

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Heroku has Betrayed Developers.
Heroku has Betrayed Developers.
Programming

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Jun 22, 2022

Creating Powerful Low-Code Data Dashboards with Superblocks

Build and deploy a low-code data reporting web app using SuperBlocks and MongoDB in minutes. — Superblocks is a powerful new way to create Data Dashboards and custom data solutions. TLDR: Superblocks allows the creation of next generation data apps — characterized by low code, easy deployments, fine grained access control, and full integrations with Prod environments. …

Data Visualization

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Creating Powerful Low-Code Data Dashboards with Superblocks
Creating Powerful Low-Code Data Dashboards with Superblocks
Data Visualization

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AWS in Plain English

·Nov 5, 2021

7 Tips to Help You Pass the AWS Cloud Architecture Associate (CAA) Certification Exam

Some tips which helped me pass the AWS CAA exam. — Getting certified by AWS is a great way to demonstrate your proficiency in implementing cloud architecture. Studying for and preparing for this certification is also a great way to grow your skills. Here are 7 recommendations to help you prepare for and pass the AWS Cloud Architecture Associate (CAA) exam.

AWS

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7 Tips to help you pass the AWS Cloud Architecture Associate (CAA) Certification Exam
7 Tips to help you pass the AWS Cloud Architecture Associate (CAA) Certification Exam
AWS

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Feb 1, 2021

Summarizing the Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report (AWS, GCP, and Azure)

This report compares the top 3 cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure) — Get a copy of the report directly from Cockroach Labs. TLDR: GCP is the most performant provider for high-performance distributed database services. AWS is the cheapest and most cost-effective in almost every area. AWS has the fastest latency (by > 20%). Throughput, however, is unreliable. GCP has the best performing network…

Software Development

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Summarizing the Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report
Summarizing the Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report
Software Development

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Yaakov Bressler

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